Re: [Rails-devel] 18EU minor initial sale round bugs

[Stefan F. (web.de) <ste...@we...>]

I wish you were right about implementation times ;-)

But what is more worrying is the long-time impact of such marginally improving
changes that still potentially make the system more complicate.

I would not do that without a general use case (here I believe that there will 
be other cases, where the backend can instruct the client that this action 
type will have a different label for the user).
Most likely it will already simplify the case of "select, no bid".

At least I can write those e-mails simultan to watch world cup, which is 
unfortunately not possible for serious coding.

Stefan

On Friday 25 June 2010 22:51:02 Chris Shaffer wrote:
> I get the feeling we've already spent more time discussing it than it would
> have taken to implement it.
>
> At any rate, if any of the developers other than Erik would care to make
> the change, it would be appreciated.  I note that the UI is already
> complicated by the implementation of the "select, no bid" option and this
> would simply be extending that option to the following players.
>
> --
> Chris
>
> Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.
>
> On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Erik Vos <eri...@xs...> wrote:
> >  I consider it an immaterial difference in rules wording, that does not
> > merit complicating the UI. But apparently opinions differ. I won't oppose
> > such a change, but I have better things to spend my time on.
> >
> > Erik.
> >
> >  ------------------------------
> > *From:* Chris Shaffer [mailto:chr...@gm...]
> > *Sent:* Friday 25 June 2010 22:22
> > *To:* Development list for Rails: an 18xx game
> > *Subject:* Re: [Rails-devel] 18EU minor initial sale round bugs
> >
> >   [EV] Indeed. I don't actually see why "Pass" would not cover "Decline
> > to
> >
> >> bid" as well. I don't see any need to make that distinction.
> >
> > It is problematic to explain rules when the interface does not match the
> > terminology in the rules.  "Pass" has a specific meaning that is
> > different from "decline to bid."
> >
> > I'm not sure why there would be resistance to having Rails match the game
> > rules?  What good reason could there be for desiring a conflict in
> > terminology?
> >
> > --
> > Chris
> >
> >
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